The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Middle Belt Development Authority, Mr Joseph Kumah Mackay, has assured that the board and management are working to well position the authority as the government’s vehicle to push the nation’s physical infrastructure development agenda.
He said the authority is also poised to coordinate and implement projects and programmes to address the deficit in the country’s physical development in a proactive manner.
“The authority has also prioritized and is currently focusing on branding and staff capacity building, as important tools to push its transformational agenda”, he said.
Mr Mackay said this when addressing the closing session of a-four-day staff retreat on the theme: “building common grounds for rethinking and repositioning for management and staff of the MBDA” at Goaso in the Ahafo region.
Participants were taken through various topics and exercises to improve their knowledge base, sharpen their skills and to empower them to deliver on the mandate of the authority.
The activities included interactive and participatory learning, physical training aimed at unleashing pent up energies to drive organizational transformation. The participants also visited some project sites of the authority in the region.
Other topics treated included “rallying around a common vision”, “strategic direction and priorities”, “mission command-a way to lead, repositioning MBDA to deliver on its mandate for national development, internal organisational assessment, public sector performance management, compliance requirements for projects monitoring and evaluation and business enterprise development in the MBDA zone.”
Mr Mackay highlighted the mandate of the authority, and asked the management and staff to work hard, be innovative, creative and facilitate team work that would well position the authority to achieve its mandate.
Some of the resource persons were drawn from the Public Services Commission, the Ghana Armed Forces, Human Resource Consultancy.
Other facilitators included Madam Joyce Opoku Boateng, the Deputy Chief Executive officer, Legal and Corporate Affairs, MBDA, Mr Vincent Frimpong Manu, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer in-charge of Operations, MBDA, Mr Alexander Ferkah, the Deputy Chief Executive officer, Finance and Administration, MDBA.
Earlier, the authority paid a courtesy call and interacted with the Paramount Chief of Mim Traditional Area and also a board member of the MBDA, Nana Yaw Agyei II.
Nana Agyei II accompanied the participants to inspect some development projects being executed by the authority in the area.
The MBDA was created by an Act of Parliament, Middle Belt Development Act, 2017, (Act 962) and accented to by the President in June 2017.
It is the main vehicle for the development of the Middle Belt Zone which comprises Ashanti, Eastern, Bono, Bono East and the Ahafo regions.
